Guess at the Rest: Cracking the Hogarth Code
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Guess at the Rest: Cracking the Hogarth Code Details
Review ‘Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has now boldly set out to show that this sophisticated repertoire is also suffused with a Masonic iconography hitherto unobserved by previous generations of scholars.’ (Andrew Pink Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, Vol. 3, No 1, 2012) Read more About the Author Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has just retired from the position of Professor of British Eighteenth-Century at the Paul Valery University of Montpellier. She is director for France of the research network on eighteenth-century Europe. Her major academic interests are eighteenth-century British novelists (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne) and eighteenth-century British art. She is also the General Editor of The European Spectator, a bilingual collection published by the presses of Paul Valery University. Read more
Reviews
Something's cracked here, but it's not the Hogarth Code. Hogarth probably did use Masonic symbolic materials along with heraldry, emblem books, conventional and unconventional Christian iconography as well as many other symbolic and expressive systems in creating the gloriously intricate pictorial language of his pictures. Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has studied Hogarth's Masonic context extensively, but the readings lack interpretative tact and do not significantly advance our understanding of the works. Further, the book is ridiculously overpriced on this side of the Atlantic.
